00:10 <Iskierka> https://i.imgur.com/FsWwnEm.jpg

00:45 <TheKosmonaut> >tfw people are complaining that Star Trek is too political

00:45 <TheKosmonaut> Did everyone see an entirely different star trek from me?

00:45 <TheKosmonaut> Because the entire show is a progressive's wet-dream

00:46 <TheKosmonaut> TOS: height of the cold war. Has a russian helmsman, an asian helmsman, a black officer, and has interracial relations on the show

00:47 <TheKosmonaut> TNG was not quite as daring but had powerful women on the show, and tackled a number of geo/sociopolitical issues in its run

00:48 <TheKosmonaut> DS9 had a black captain, Voyager had a woman captain (believe it or not that was kind of strange even in the 90s, and a few people weren't happy either)

00:57 <UmbralRaptor> They saw the Abrams movies only?

00:58 <TheKosmonaut> UmbralRaptor: Maybe.. It's so mind boggling that people really are saying stuff like this

00:59 <TheKosmonaut> I mean, Voyager tackles the morality in using medical knowledge gained by the Cardassians' torture of Bajorans, an allegory to the medical knowledge we have now of hypothermia and drowning that was researched by the Nazis.

00:59 <TheKosmonaut> DS9 is about post-diaspora Judaism in a few places

01:00 <TheKosmonaut> The Klingons are basically a tool to show the Russians and then dangers of nationalism (Cardassians too)

01:00 <TheKosmonaut> Soviet Russians*

01:00 <UmbralRaptor> Also, pick the right metrics, and the US is more conservative than it was in the 80s.

01:01 <UmbralRaptor> (healthcare, environment)

01:01 <TheKosmonaut> Well, Trek has always been in a world where healthcare and environmental issues are solved.

01:02 <TheKosmonaut> Funny, I just watched the Cryonics episode last night in TNG

01:02 <TheKosmonaut> It's when they find 3 frozen people from the 80s or so, all with terminal illness

01:02 <TheKosmonaut> But Crusher fixes them up instantly and the one investment banker dude is obsessed with calling Geneva

16:05 <Iskierka> https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/915537952243109889

16:05 <kmath> <KevinMKruse> Can you imagine that? Registering trucks? Requiring insurance for injury they caused? Licensing and testing drivers? https://t.co/sBNDjK22Y9

20:12 <UmbralRaptor> https://twitter.com/APBusiness/status/915654091946283014

20:12 <kmath> <APBusiness> BREAKING: AP Investigation: Americans buying salmon at Walmart, ALDI may have subsidized North Korea as it builds nukes program.

20:12 <Iskierka> ... ?

20:12 <UmbralRaptor> Exactly!

20:18 <Pinkbeast> ... also presumably subsidised American nuke program but you get that with everything

21:24 <UmbralRaptor> https://twitter.com/chordbug/status/914458428642414592

21:24 <kmath> <chordbug> ???????? are turning your kids into ????????? ???????? who write ??????? ??????????? ???????? ????????